When an individual has rehabilitated from a drug or alcohol addiction, it isn't as easy as starting life again where you left off. Getting back to a successful and happy life takes time and a lot of hard work. A Halfway House, a.k.a. a Sober Living Facility, is a place where people in recovery can go where they can live in a drug and alcohol free and positive setting until they can live confidently on their own. Living in a Halfway House may be a term of a person's probation or parole for example, or the individual may decide to live in a Halfway House of their own will following drug or alcohol treatment. In either case, residents of a Halfway House are sober and striving to do what they need to do to repair their lives. This could mean, for example, getting one's GED, finding a job, etc.
Halfway Houses in Jack are operated by individuals who in most cases were once occupants of the house. How long an individual is allowed to stay at the Halfway House will differ, but it's usually anywhere from a month to a couple of years. Tenants must undergo drug and alcohol testing before being accepted into the house, and this testing will continue frequently to be certain there isn't any drug use in the house or addiction problems that would be more adequately addressed in an addiction rehabilitation facility.